MARIE

SKLODOWASKA
CURIE
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WHO IS MARIE CURIE

She was the first women to win a Noble Price
She conducted pioneering research on radioactivity
Madam Curie and her husband Perrie Curie coined
name Radioactivity
Discovered two elements Polonium and Radium
Under her directions , the world first studies were
conducted using radioactive isotope in the treatment
of Neoplasms
A well known French physicist and chemist

PERSONAL LIFE
Marie Slodowska was born at Warsaw ,kingdom of
Poland ,thenpart of Russian Empire, in 7 November
1867
Fifth and youngest child of her parents
She studied at Warsaws Clandestine Floating
University
In 1891 she went to france and conducted higher
studies in University of Paris
In 1893 she was awarded a degree in physics and earn
a second degree in 1894
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PERSONAL LIFE CONTINUE

On 26 July 1895 Marie married Pierre Curie ,who was
an instructor at school of physics and chemistry
They had two children, Irne Joliot-Curie (18971956)
and ve Curie (19042007)
Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie shared the
1903 Noble Prize for Physics

AWARDS , HONOURS AND TRIBUTES

Awards she received includes:
Noble Prize in Physics [1903]
Davy Medal [1903]
Matteucci Medal [1904]
Actonian Prize [1907]
Elliott Cresson Medal [1909]
Nobel Prize in Chemistry [1911]
Franklin Medal of the American Philosophical
Society[1921]
The Curie (symbol Ci) , a unit of radioactivity ,is
named after her and Pierre
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DEATH

Curie died in 1934 ,aged 66 at a sanitorium in

Sancellemz ,France
Died due to aplastic anaemia brought on by explosure
to radiation